Why Blood Pressure Medications Are 40% Less Effective Than Tests Show

When a new medication is put to the market, it has to go through years of extensive, testing before it’s put to the market… first in labs, then on animals, and finally on humans.

Then, before it’s approved, FDA values the benefits against the side effects to decide if it’s actually save for the general public.

But there is one factor that’s never taken into consideration.

This factor, according to a new Dutch study published in the March 2017 edition of the journal Hypertension, makes all blood pressure drugs 40% less effective than the official tests show.

And that’s a serious miss-match that can seriously hurt you.

In the Dutch study, researchers tested their participant’s compliance with their drug regimes, finding that 20% of people took none of their prescribed medicines, while a further 20% took only some of them.

That means that almost half of people didn’t use the drugs in the way their doctors prescribed. Therefore, they have no effects.

And there is a good reason why people are going ditching their prescriptions:

Diuretics lower your blood pressure by removing fluid from your arteries. But they also dehydrate you, make you thirsty, make you feel fatigued, and force you to visit the bathroom extremely often.

Beta-blockers block the effects of norepinephrine and epinephrine, and thereby cause your heart to beat slower and with less force. But they can also cause dizziness, fatigue, and impotence.

ACE inhibitors dilate and relax your blood vessels, lowering blood pressure. But they can also cause headaches, fatigue, and a constant irritating cough.

Angiotensin II receptor blockers work very much like ACE inhibitors, and together with the same side effects caused by the ACE inhibitors, they also cause indigestion and diarrhea.

Calcium channel blockers stop calcium from entering your cells, and since calcium is responsible for muscle contraction, this enables the muscles of your heart and around your blood vessels to relax.

But they also cause headaches, shortness of breath, water retention in your arms and legs, constipation, and sometimes even skin rashes.

With all these side effects, most people don’t want to take their blood pressure medications. But without doing anything, your high blood pressure will lead to stroke or heart attack.

So what’s a man or woman to do?

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